10 HARDEST Elden Ring Bosses That Require Incredible Skill 

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Mohg and falling beast were the ones I killed the fastest seriously never understood how someone couldn’t overcome their attack patterns but astel..took about ten tries lol

Bleed build combined with Tiche spirit ashes and Mohg pretty much melted like butter.

Yeah I fought someone similar to him and they basically did the same thing so I new what he does

Had us in the first half not gonna lie

Tree sentinel is easy to run around and away from. You have to beat Margit to progress

@@12345Yeah I mean not really. You can go around Stormveil entirely

@@broskander3671 yes but if you want to progress through stormveil castle you need to beat him..and it's silly to skip that area

@@12345Yeah eh. I usually skip as much of stormveil as possible until later on unless there's something I really want cuz I don't think it'd a very fun or interesting area personally

@@broskander3671 I understand, I'm talking in terms of someone approaching the game for the first time

Except let me solo her. He makes it look easy 😂

Expect Hollow. He beat her in a few tries.

Blown out of proportion imo. Thought Radagon/Elden Beast was harder, depends on the build I suppose

She only killed me 19 times, most I died to anyone in Elden ring but still not the most in any souls game (nameless killed me 20 times smh)

Took me only 2 tries and I'm not even good.

Took me 37 tries to beat pre-nerf Radahn at RL68. Next playthrough after he was nerfed, he felt like a total pushover at RL57

They should have never nerfed Radahn

He got buffed

And all that because everyone fights him extremely under leveled and can't understand he is a mid game boss. I fought pre nerf radahn at level 75 which is the level you are supposed to be and he was a lot more fair, fun and easier but everyone needs to be stubborn nowdays.

Literally ran circles around him and hit him with comet shard, he died in like 2 min...2nd playthrough I fought him melee and holy crap was that different experience! He destroyed me, alot!

Absolutely shocked Maliketh isn't on the list. I just beat him and he is BY FAR the hardest boss I have fought so far. Astel that high too???

I think Maliketh is much harder than any other save Melania and Mohg. Astel isn't even in the same league.

Astel just hits like a runaway tank, the actual move set is stupid simple to avoid for the most part

Definitely harder than Astel.

His first phase isn't that bad; and his health pool is small compared to the other bosses. Give him about 10k more health and he'd be near the top of the list.

Exactly, yesterday I rage over that guy in Crumbling Farum Azula after I finished up the Black Blade. Finished him up with my Giant Crusher (S scaling 980+ damage).

i died 50+ times to him. but margrit died only 15+- times. ( not a souls gamer at all).

Am i the only one that still thinks the crucible knights tandem was unquestionably difficult. (Assuming you went straight up)

@@backloggame no lol. Crucible duo is horribly hard. I went there overleveled and still got my cheeks claped.

Killed him first try w my dex faith build using godslayer sword on horseback its easy af (i never player any other souls games either)

Patience is still the hardest boss for me, by far!

astel was super easy compared to every other on this list

@@gustavmatson4739 Yeah by far

@@TheSacr3dWalrus most people even fight him while high level, I would rather see maliketh (as you said)/placidusax or even godrick instead

Yeah Black Blade must have made the list

That time was one of the best gaming experience in my life. Like you said It's much different when you actually played it and experienced it with everyone else at the same time. I feel like if you play it late then you lose a part of that experience.

@@titusalabat5173 i bought a week ago. i regret not buying it earlier

@@jjjjashan It's alright, enjoy this masterpiece of art of a game.

@@jjjjashan how are you enjoying it so far?

@@jjjjashan I bought it when first came out but I don't have internet so I'm forced to play by myself. I kinda got bored and put it down for a couple months after getting to falling star beast. I went back to playing Sekiro to get all the endings (best Fromsoft game imo). Just now coming back to Elden Ring again.

niall took me longer than malenia 😭

are we talking about the same guy? the commander who spawns 2 ashes ? .. i first tried him lol

@@maxldaxl1806same, i guess it depends on your build

Those one were troublesome

Toughest in the game for me, but I was maybe underlevelled there and overlevelled for Mohg and Radahn, who I had no trouble with.

Comet azure was the only way I could beat this fight. I died more here than anywhere else.... except Malenia.

This is my first souls game and this fight almost made me quit lmao 😂 took a couple hours

Yep honestly I guess I was around 8 hours alone in auriza hero's grave all in all and these mfs in the end were tough as hell

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Damn should I continue playing scary shit

@@augiegomez7460 its a masterpiece

@@augiegomez7460 keep going!!!!!!!!

My character is currently level 547. You have no idea what joy it is to just melt bosses with Comet Azur or simply that rancor call spell.

I found the fire giant incredibly easy once you dodge the first wave attack, got him on my 3rd attempt, the wave was just killing me, I just got to his legs and started to hit him

@@Laccc I meant like he said in the video that the fire giant started the steep endgame bosses. I got to maliketh soon after and he hit me like a freight train. He’s trying first boss I couldn’t help but use summons on.

Don’t know if this is a dig at the end game bosses or not, but Malekith is the best boss in the game mechanics wise imo. Try and no hit him. If you get it (and you will), it’s the “purest” boss fight I’ve encountered in any Soulsbournekiro game. Seriously, whoever designed that boss fight is big brained af. First time I fought him I thought he was so broken and cheap…then I actually learned the fight and wow was I wrong.

*Cough* Elden Beast *Cough*

Fire giant wasn't hard imo however I had a quality build which meant bleed was a viable strat for me

That's why so many of us are drawn to the series. The game will let you both persist and persevere with little gear or go around and level up first. Both feel satisfying when you killed him because he can still be difficult even with a few levels. The game makes your choices and styles feel satisfying. There's skill involved, but the game wants you to succeed. It gives you the means to do it everywhere.

This my 1st from software too. I honestly roamed around and died everywhere else before i even knew how to follow along the story. I got to him pretty leveled up amd he was still pretty rough lol

Then get destroyed by birds with swords on their feet immediately after

That's gangsta. Took me about 35 hours to beat him.

Good job king

Runebears appearing out of nowhere and being so aggressive you don't even have time to pop a pot

I was really dreading the twins but found them suprisingly easy, only took two tries

Rune Bears are the worst. Especially in caves

@@philjamprimateI swear that cave rune bear in Caelid is by far the hardest non boss in the game. Rune bears in general are the only enemy in the whole game I purposefully didn’t fight. Even crucible knights you can get super consistent on but those rune bears man I don’t know what it is about them, but they’re horrible.

at what level u guys killed them ?

I honestly hated that one more than the godskin duo

Me an you both bro, this boss had me ripping my hair out I spent so long

The same here. Was a noob and didn’t know how to lvl. up and lock on target with spells as mage 😂

Which one? Dragonlord was epic seeing him waiting, fortissax was a long time coming and sad but still a specticale

Placidusax or fortisax?😂

@@DizzlerDazzler lmao thats what i said, placidusax is my favorite, but the duskborn was my first ending so i like fortisax and his lore is better than the dragonlords

Definitely Placidusax. I was too op for the other one lol

@@juvenilegolden those lasers where epic

I needed this comment, im doing the same run atm with powerstance katanas and just got to the haligtree. Been dreading this every step of the way

I beat her a few days ago with powerstance curved swords and it also took me around 15 hours.. My thumb is still in pain haha

U can parry her? I read comments saying she could be parried.

@@anonisnoone6125 Yeah almost every attack can be parried, you just need to learn the different timings. For some attacks you press the parry button when you see orange sparks from her sword, look out for those. She only staggers after three succesvol parried attacks. Good luck!

They hadn’t fought him yet, still stuck with the duo

i killed him and have no idea of what you're talking about lmao

@@belphegor7352 then you're one of the lucky ones lol

Dude did you fight the second astel where he clones himself around the entire ring and grabs you??

@@drizzyk6633 no 😅

@@drizzyk6633 that's the one I'm talking about. Not the one in Rannis questline, the one in the consecrated snowfields

I'd go as far as to say the worst boss. I genuinely hate him.

@@dirtyghostlyhabbits7042 I don't know if you mean Radahn or Maliketh, but either way, clown take. Both such amazing fights. Maliketh's moves can be a bit BS occasionally but the whole fight is so sick.

pre patch radahn was on a whole nother level.

Yes Maliketh second stage omg, I thought i was getting good until i reached him on my first playthrough. Was suck for a week and honestly the boss that gave me the hardest time out of them all.

didn't they reverse the patch?

Yeah. A french youtuber tried to beat Margit without going in the open world to farm on his first playthrough, he killed him in 7 hours in total. On my first playthrough I discovered the open world etc, and I killed him within 6 or 7 tries. There's a huge gap between a non leveled player and a leveled player who took the time to explore, especially on this boss

If only I knew that before clearing whole stormveil castle right away.. But what's bad about that is if you really explore everything some bosses get too easy, decreases the joy when you actually beat them. Morgott, took like 10 secs bitch didn't even got time to get phase 2, that was really disappointing..

​@@Wistream. fk man Morgott wiped the floor with me.. me and my greatsword had no chance... there was NO hit window AT ALL... you basically had to perfect dogde for a minute straight just to get one single hit in.. like wtf

@@pun15h3r. After I reached Morgott and gave it a try it looked manageble but I just paused to go back for Rykard and aanything else I didn't discovered/killed yet until that point, just to not left out of any content. And when I came back I was just too disappointed that I became so OP..

@@Wistream. yeah prob. wasn't the best idea to go straight to the golden tree.. i didn't do Nokron or Rakahn nor did i do Rykard before Margott.. xD I felt really overwhelmed by him.. I guess now i would beat him, at least with Mimic Tear for sure, me x2 is OP xD

Malikeths *2nd* Form Was *Insane*

margit being on this list is disrespectful to maliketh tbh

Luckily he is weak to magic and such... I beat him with my tanking mimic tear... and then just frost dragoned his ass.

Yeah there's a few bosses that could be on this list, and yet they put Radahn and Margit in there LOL

Maliketh move set was too easy to pick up on for me... and that's saying alot... but I admit I did kind of cheese him with dragon breathe

Ur into a long journey. Good luck tarnish

Tarnished are we?

Good luck on your long, long journey. Don't give up and use everything in your arsenal if you have to!

You definitely have what it takes if you’ve attempted 40 times

The first time I got to him he kicked my arse. Twice. I then went "sod this" and went exploring and when I finally remembered that I had to fight him he was a breeze and I owned him. (I killed him without him hitting me)

Exactly. I'm surprised they didn't even mention that.

It can be avoided. Just don't get greedy and run like hell when she's telegraphing

I'd argue you can deal with it 80-90% of the time if you catch the telegraph early enough but if you get caught in the wrong place positioning wise when she starts up this attack you are simply dead

@@Oryyyt Yeah, you can run away from the first two phases, and just roll through the third. Just gotta peck away at her. Or summon "Let Me Solo Her"

I feel weird regarding Malenia: found out you can stop the Waterfowl Dance with an ice pot. And even if you can't runaway or stop her, you can easily block her first wave, dodge the second and literally stand still in the third. She has become more manageable.

when I played, placidusax was a cake walk using bleed on him. Not sure if they ever balanced bleed

People keep saying placidusax is hard Is it really??? I've seen people beat it rolling on my first run malekith I did it first try but ng3 it's a whole different story ):

Twin gargoyles, i still cant beat them 😆

honestly for me rot sead beast in rot lake was so annoying for me

@@tqvur6402 If you straight up melee he can be hard. But he has a lot of weaknesses, the most fun way I did (and quite fast) was with that bubble blowing horn (the long one). Also with magic he wasn't too hard. He is a bit like Midir, big health bar, so the fight can last a bit, so I suspect the more impatient ones are the ones finding him hard.

An intern in my team quit Elden Ring because of him and I cant blame him for it

The whole kill-you-in-one-hit thing gets pretty bad late in the game, but Maliketh takes it to the next level. The problem I had is that in his second form he's never in the same place he was when you were just fighting him, so sometimes he'd kill me before I knew where he was.

60 Vigor with 25 Endurance + Greatjar's Arsenal will help you with tanking. Already tested that. Beaten the game 14 times already.

@@NikulayBeyatris had like 60 vigor and dragoncrest greatshield

@@rhysofsneezingdragon1758 you need good armor too and none of that Radagon's Scarseal. Worst talisman in mid to late game. Check out the link I've commented here. That's my 60 vigor 25 endurance str build.

Oh I legit just got enough health and other versions of defense so I can attack most of the time and now I realize I turned into a tank because I fought god

I legit kicked radagon's ass after about three tries but the elden beast really f'd me up. Took a solid 15 tries at least

Radagon was sooo much worse for me. The staggered / fast attacks and some attacks lightning fast with minimal animated indication as to what he might be doing. Radagon alone took me about 20 tries to learn, but I killed the Elden Beast in 3 attempts. Just let it run away from me and spammed Radan's rain from the lion greatbow

This is truly sound advice. You should be a creator with how you can articulate and break things down.

@@lucasantolik9960 I use to lead raids in WoW a long time ago. Had to get good at explaining fights, and what to do when. Especially when the raid had members that required you to spell out exactly what they needed to do, only to stand in fire anyways. I've thought of trying to be a creator though, but I don't have the time or charisma.

It's a classic strength/tank vs. dex/status battle between Malenia and Radahn. Radahn wins phase 1 because Malania can't chip his health down fast enough to overcome Radahns armour and attack power but when phase 2 kicks in Radahn is so dosed in status effects he can't finish the fight before he succumbs to proc damage. In terms of personality Radahn seemed to be a warrior and a gentlemen, good to those he cared for but a near unstoppable force against his enemies. Malenia is a zealot who has fallen off the deep end, she fights for what she believes is right and refuses to see any other side of things.

100% agree. I dont why, but it took me over 6 hours to beat Maliketh whereas I beat the falling star beast on my third try.

How is he not? My kryptonite. On NG+7 and he has been the one boss that just owns me since NG+4. Just don't have it down.

Niall is also shockingly easily wrecked with just one bewitching branch on his minions. Don't even attack them. Just hit them with the branch, stand back and watch his own men kick the crap out of him

Nialls knights felt tedious, not necessarily hard. The walk also sucks relative to the rest of games walk, Niall himself is relatively easy to learn, it just takes to so much time to rematch him 1v1

Nah i beat him on my 4th fry first play through he ain’t that hard

SAME !!

Big time

Patience and poison arrow is your bff, and I mean lots and lots of poison arrow lol , hey whatever it takes right?! Lol

That boss was a bitch to deal with I agree lol

Abso-friggin-loutely

TRUE!!!

I mean yeah she's fun to fight. She has low poise so you can stunlock her + she has really cool combos that feel so great to dodge. But freaking Elden beast is boss that just teleports all over the HUGE arena shooting from the distance... If we could use steed it would be WAY less frustrating.

I dont know if it’s because i used mimic tear. But only malenia gave me a bit of trouble. Where i had to try over 2 hours i guess. All the other bosses i defeated them on first try.

@@bobby_idk1880 why are you talking about radahn?

I love Malenia’s first phase, it’s very enjoyable to learn and counter and it’s fair. But absolutely hate her 2nd phase, it’s confusing to learn her attacks because her wings make it difficult to see. Elden Ring’s bosses demands incredible patience compared to other fromsoftware games because bosses almost never stop attacking and if you don’t want to trade attacks you’ll only be getting 2 hits in max after every 10-15 attacks you have to dodge. As someone who absolutely loved the Bloodborne and Sekiro gameplay, from a pure gameplay perspective I’m not sure I like Elden Ring because melee-only builds don’t work too well and it really encourages ranged attacks or using summons when it comes to many of the tough bosses. And summons make bosses so much easier there is almost no challenge at all.

Of course he did it to me 😂

That’s interesting, i beat margit on my 2nd try, its cool to see how different bosses effect different players…i took forever to beat Tree Sentinel, which some people beat right away 🤔🤷‍♂️

@will i hit 1 sub before 2023? 🙏💖 reported.

@@believeinmatter glad I’m not the only one lol

I lost to her probably 50 times with my basic, no-strategy melee build. Respected into a bleed build with a mimic and we obliterated her first try.

@@believeinmatter as a souls beginner Tree sentinel was a lot more difficult than Margit for me

I'd argue that the one in the Consecrated Snowfield is _FAR_ worse, because that one you're fighting almost blind because of the low visibility from the blizzard around that whole area. Both times doing it so far have been the most deaths that I've had to a boss other than Malenia.

@@PierceArnerI never knew there was one there. Ever since I accidentally bumped into a rune bear there, I never bothered to explore that place

@@andrewefurhievwe6416 Yeah, if you head straight north towards the sending gate that will jump you across the chasm to the Minor Erdtree it's there with a pack of wolves. Absolutely _brutal._ I'm on Journey 3 now and I always make a point of exploring everywhere, but I'm still dreading that encounter, haha.

@@PierceArner thanks. I'll go check it out

@@PierceArner Oh no! I haven't gotten there yet! 😅

Astel darkness is the worst he has a attack where clone himself 10 times and grabs you and instakillyou, he is easy but that attack is bs. You never know which astel is the one you have to avoid.

i struggled more with the first evergaol crucible knight than with more of those bosses lol my character was way weaker in that fight

I found that this list was good but found most of everything doable. Except Radahn and Mohg. As a mage, I didn't put THAT much in health. Basically had to be perfect as a glass cannon. Finally did it but sheesh. Found that malenia and the final boss was actually EASIER than those two bosses I mentioned. Finally got all the achievements. I thought I loved Bloodborne but elden ring for 200 hours of my time and is now my favorite soulsborne game.

@@lovelesswing458 I still find bloodborne to be my favourite, just walking through and feeling the atmosphere of yharnam and all the secrets behind the place and the connectivity of the world is just on another level. Lore is without a doubt the best for me

@@lovelesswing458 eww a mage lol

@@lovelesswing458 Maybe each build is better against certain bosses. I know Maliketh was hell to me as I tend to do a fairly balanced build... and damn... first form is doable... but the second form... Holly molly... at first I didn't manage 10 seconds

Fr, after Malenia I died the most to him... especially his multi grab...damn this move

Gotta be perfect with the dodge or he just grab attacks you and insta kills you

I also thought, how hard can it be to fight another one of these... Well very hard

I foud the one from ranni's quest line harder than the one in the Mountain tops of the giants Maybe I was just underleveled

Really I found astel in rannis quest way easier then astel in the mountain tops

Same. I had to switch to a magic build to beat that mf'er

The one at the Haligtree is harder than Malenia

I rode around the tree, shooting arrows at it. Not the quickest or most sporting way, but it got the job done.

@@broccolin real

try the one in the dungeon behind radahns boss arena

I bet her co-op. no way am i skilled enough to solo her.

​@@FoxHound-ch1yy I just beat it today with my summon, i got lucky cz her 2nd phase she use her incantation skill twice which is easier to dodge and i can spam her with my comet 😂

How you guys do it?? I’m stuck on her right now and I can’t do shit against her. Only once did I manage to beat her, only to realize that she has a second phase and by then I was out of healing flasks and got wrecked

I killed her with the moonveil katana weapon art and a mimic. Weenie mode

Use blasphemous blade and just spam the ash of war.

Stuck on him and his 2 mates right now. I’ll get him. Eventually. Maybe.

Yeah it takes so long to learn his absurdly long wind ups that when you fight Margott it feels like he’s the fastest boss in the game 😂

how did you have moonviel so early on i got when i reached around lvl 78 and fought radahan while lvl 66

@@MohamedUaiyou can get moonveil pretty early I had it by level 50 you just have to beat the wyvern in the cave where you get it

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As vagabund it took me 6 hours at level 26 with weapon lv 3, but with samurai i did him at lv 11. But then he had like 10 HP, i had full health and 3 pots left and then i fell off the cliff on the side

Radahn was really ez ngl

LAWL!

Same thing happened to me

Idk how you have the patience for that tbh. Props. I just threw fireballs at him until he died I’m pretty sure lol

I killed him with fall damage bc where he is located is near a big cliff but it took me about 20 to 30 min to finally get it😅

100% agree. The bell bearing hunters may be super easy to predict but their range is ridiculous. It's kind of like fighting a buffed up crucible knight that you're forced to be close to

I was doing a meleebuild for my first playthrough, and struggled with every Briar eventually besting them. Then I made a mage and all I did was blast them, cause they rarely run towards you. I was so mad... haha.

Yep. Insanely hard.....use physik with tear that helps stance break. Stony cracked tear maybe? Cant remember

Can confirm that Dan OlMate.

The stupid scarlet rot one in the hailgtree during Millicent quest line fuccin sucks

@@562.anthony2 I cheesed that thing, standing on a tree branch shooting radahn arrows. After fighting that same boss 4 times I stopped caring

that tree spirit in the haligtree city was for sure insanity with the golden shot thing.

Don’t feel bad. My first time trying to take her on I used a Black Blade build and, after like 5 hours of dying, I caved and respeced to Rivers of Blood

@@SeraphimArtist i mained Eleonaras Poleblade, the bleed coupled with the crazy Poise damage allowed me to crit nonstop.

It took me like 2 days to beat her with the starscourge swords because that's the only weapon I was using it's crazy hard to beat her without using a bleed build

I stayed Mage and tried fighting her normally till I gave up and used a Mimic and came up with a mage build strat to beat her. Its on my channel.

I like how you say 20 times as if that's even a fraction of the attempts I've made

It's surprising to see that developers an optional boss more tough to beat than the final boss, even though Radagon looks more holy than Malenia 😯.

That commander was horrendous. Felt good coming back by with Rivers o’ Blood & mimic tear haha

Final boss was much tougher for me than Malenia. Everyone struggles on different bosses than other people though.

@@phil2877 True! It’s so cool to hear what other people struggle with

bad part that it was 2 bosses

Mohg was so infuriating as a pure strength build lol

@@snek_47 oh I agree, he was a menace on first playthrough!

@@minoas-sunbro I’m still on my 1st playthrough and I only have malenia left to beat before starting NG but Mohg definitely gave me the second hardest time out of any boss

Fr, I don't remember having any real trouble with the Fallingstar Beast. I think every boss that came before it on the list gave me a harder time, shouldn't have been on the list at all imo. I remember utilizing my horse quite a bit during that battle tho and all their footage is on foot so maybe that's why? Haven't fought Astel tho so can't say on that one

Yea Astel was tough until Ik his obvious patterns and then starbeast was just an upset cow. I fought it on foot and just avoided its attacks until it died.

As monster hunter player.... I still have heavy difficulties with that thing xd

@@LuxOfZodiacs I found that treating it like Tigrex (just making sure to stay out of the way of the charge) kinda helped me. Honestly the Fallingstar Beasts are some of my favorite bosses and a friend of mine is baffled that I can beat them semi easily. Still a Fromsoft boss so I definitely die to them more often then this comment lets on.

@@TheVikingKing125 thats a good idea, I just think it's easier to dodge tigrex, that also doesn't shoot a deathstar beam. Maybe I need to do more hit and run with the beast too. Why do we have to fight against trains in every game xd

Right!! I was a mage on my first playthrough and the ringleader was the hardest boss for me by far, when I tried a melee playthrough i did it first try in like 30 seconds lol

@@TheTrickyTwix I spammed adulas moonblade with unlimited fp and turtle neck meat

Rykard is a pushover

YES! Those things suck so much ass

@Ghost Yuki i'm honestly baffled that those birdies didn't make it into the top 10 list.

Yeah the snowfield one is brutal

Agree

Yeah dude. I actually had a very hard time on ng+4 beating radagon + beast because my status effect build was worthless

They're optional? Fuck lol